Teresa Mukami Mucheru is a Christian widow with eight children and grandmother of ten living in Eldoret City, Kenya. She made her living as restaurant owner raising her children over the years. She saw the plight of eight street boys begging for food and had compassion on them. She and several other restaurant owners began feeding them once a day. She would tell them of God’s love as she fed them.

In 1995 while out walking, she happened by some orphaned children of the AIDS epidemic which is ravaging their country. God laid it upon her heart to have compassion for these children who lost their parents to the tragic disease.

Since she now had a string of restaurants the street boys could obtain nourishment.  She placed her efforts in helping the orphans who had no one. She applied and received authorization to start a charity for these children.

She closed her restaurant to open her ministry office for helping the AIDS orphans. She is currently caring for families consisting of seven children, of two children, of four children and a family of nine orphans ranging in age of fifteen to two years.

In addition to providing some kind of housing for them she helps with feeding, clothing, medical care. She sends six of the children to school paying for their school fees of five thousand shillings per semester. These fees do not include food or boarding. There are two in elementary and four in middle school. There are three semesters per year Jan. - April, May- July and Sept. - Nov. Fourteen thousand shillings equals approximately two hundred in US currency.

Teresa and her son John visited the States this summer trying to obtain more sponsorship. During this time the eldest child of the orphan family died.

Seven hundred people per day succumb to AIDS and Malaria in Kenya.